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American Icons: <em>Gone with the Wind</em>

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As part of our series on American Icons, WNYC’s Karen Frillmann takes a look at how the racial politics of Gone with the Wind play out in 2006, and explores why the story still speaks to readers and viewers today.

American Icons: <em>Gone with the Wind</em>

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American Icons: Gone With the Wind

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A movie poster for "Gone with the Wind" sits in a front yard of a home damaged by Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish September 28, 2005.

After Charlottesville, some are asking what to do about ‘Gone With the Wind’

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